Cnaan Liphshiz
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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Fast Forward Hungarian Rabbi Rejects Far-Right Party’s Hanukkah Greetings
(JTA) – A prominent rabbi from Budapest rejected an unusual Hanukkah greeting from the far-right Jobbik party, citing its alleged anti-Semitism. Rabbi Slomo Koves, leader of the Orthodox Unified Hungarian Jewish Congregation, in an open letter Wednesday spurned the greeting his office received earlier this week from the party’s chairman, Gabor Vona. “It’s a nice…
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Fast Forward Norway Public TV Sorry for Spoofing Holocaust
(JTA) — Norway’s public broadcaster apologized for referencing Nazi death camps and the Jewish genocide in a satirical cartoon about the financial situation of university students. “This cartoon should not have spoofed the Nazi genocide, and we’re sorry this reference obstructed what the sketch is really about,” a spokesperson for the NRK broadcaster wrote on…
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Fast Forward Aliyah to Israel Dips 13% — More Immigrants Coming From Russia
(JTA) — Bucking a noticeable decrease in Jewish immigration to Israel this year, the number of Russian Jews who moved to the Jewish state has reached a 10-year record of 7,000 newcomers. Overall, some 27,000 people moved to Israel this year under its Law of Return for Jews and their relatives, or made aliyah, according…
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Fast Forward Belgian Actor Accuses Israel of ‘Jewish Procreation’ Policies
(JTA) — A well-known theater actor from Belgium told one of his country’s best-read weeklies that he is infuriated by the “procreation policies of the Jews in Israel.” Wannes Cappelle, 37, made his remarks in an interview published Sunday in De Zondag. “Those procreation policies of the Jews in Israel, to name one example, is…
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Fast Forward French Jews Slam Israeli Defense Chief’s Remarks on Dreyfus Trial
(JTA) — The umbrella group of French Jewish communities blasted the defense minister of Israel for calling on Jews to leave France and drawing parallels between the Dreyfus Affair and Paris’ attempts to push for Israeli-Palestinian talks. The statement Tuesday by the CRIF umbrella warned that the remarks a day earlier by Avigdor Liberman may…
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Fast Forward Hundreds Protest ‘Anti-Israel Bias’ at International Criminal Court in The Hague
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — Hundreds of Christians and Jews gathered outside the seat of the U.N. international court for a Hanukkah event that they said was also a protest against anti-Israel bias. The lighting of Hanukkah candles Wednesday on a 36-foot menorah outside the Hague’s Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, was the…
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Fast Forward 2 Boston-Area Schools Scrap Hockey Season Over Players’ Anti-Semitism
(JTA) – Two Boston-area high schools canceled the hockey season for their joint boys team over what faculty said was anti-Semitic comments and actions by players against a teammate. Officials at Keefe Regional Technical School and Marian High School in Framingham, a suburb of Boston situated 25 miles east of the city, declined to give…
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Fast Forward Sen. Chuck Schumer, World Jewish Congress Urge Veto of UN Anti-Settlement Resolution
(JTA) — The World Jewish Congress joined calls by lawmakers in Israel and the United States, including incoming Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, urging the Obama administration to veto an anti-settlement resolution at the U.N. Security Council. The WJC statement Friday by its president, Ronald Lauder, followed vigorous lobbying for a veto in Jerusalem and…
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